Walmart

Senior Data Scientist

Walmart$96K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in relevant fields like Statistics, Economics, or Computer Science with corresponding experience in analytics.
  • 1 year of experience for Master's degree holders or 3 years for Bachelor's degree.
  • Proficient in Python for production coding activities.
  • Familiarity with SQL and big data tools, particularly Pyspark.
  • Experience in developing and deploying machine learning models.

Responsibilities

  • Support requirement prioritization and service level agreements understanding.
  • Identify and assess data sources suitable for analytical purposes.
  • Perform quality checks on data extraction processes.
  • Develop and test analytical models for production use.
  • Generate visual data representations and communicate insights to stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, vision, and dental insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match and stock purchase plan.
  • Generous paid time off policy, including parental and family care leave.
  • Education assistance for pursuing 100% company-paid college degrees.
  • Various family-related benefits like adoption expense reimbursement.
Full Job Description
What you'll do...

Position: Senior Data Scientist

Job Location: 14901 Quorum Drive, Dallas, TX 75254

Duties: Support the understanding of the priority order of requirements and service level agreements. Help identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose. Perform initial data quality checks on extracted data. Understand, articulate, and apply principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function. Support efforts to ensure that analytical models and techniques used can be deployed into production. Support evaluation of the analytical model. Support the scalability and sustainability of analytical models. Write code to develop the required solution and application features by using the recommended programming language and leveraging business, technical, and data requirements. Test the code using the recommended testing approach. Identify the model evaluation metrics. Apply best practice techniques for model testing and tuning to assess accuracy, fit, validity, and robustness for multi-stage models and model ensembles. Generate appropriate graphical representations of data and model outcomes. Understand customer requirements to design appropriate data representation for multiple data sets. Work with User Experience designers and User Interface engineers as required to build front end applications. Present to and influence the team and business audience using the appropriate data visualization frameworks and conveys clear messages through business and stakeholder understanding. Customize communication style based on stakeholders under guidance and leverages rational arguments. Develop business cases for projects with a projected return on investment or cost savings. Translate business requirements into projects, activities, and tasks and aligns to overall business strategy and develops domain specific artifact. Serve as an interpreter and conduit to connect business needs with tangible solutions and results. Identify and recommend relevant business insights pertaining to their area of work. Translate and co-own business problems within one's discipline to data related or mathematical solutions. Identify appropriate methods/tools to be leveraged to provide a solution for the problem. Share use cases and gives examples to demonstrate how the method would solve the business problem. Select the analytical modeling technique most suitable for the structured, complex data and develops custom analytical models. Conduct exploratory data analysis activities on available data. Define and finalize features based on model responses and introduces new or revised features to enhance the analysis and outcomes. Identify the dimensions of the experiment, finalize the design, test hypotheses, and conduct the experiment. Perform trend and cluster analysis on data to answer practical business problems and provide recommendations and key insights to the business.

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or the equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 1 year of experience in an analytics related field; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3 years of experience in an analytics related field.

Skills required: Experience writing production code in Python. Experience with database technologies and tools, including SQL. Experience with big data analytics using Pyspark. Experience developing machine learning models and algorithms. Experience deploying machine learning models and algorithms. Experience with Machine Learning (ML) frameworks: scikit learn, TensorFlow, and torch. Experience with statistical methods: multivariate analysis and Bayesian Statistics. Experience with Data Science modeling techniques: cluster analysis, Random Forest, and Boosting. Experience with exploratory data analysis: statistical analysis, statistical inference, and hypothesis testing. Experience with visualization techniques and tools: Tableau and Python libraries. Experience with model fit testing, tuning, and validation techniques: grid search, metrics as precision, and root mean square error. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Salary Range: $96,034/year to $180,000/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com.

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Size
2,300 employees
Market Cap
$387 billion
Industry
Net Income
$13.5 billion
Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+3.3%
Revenue
$559.1 billion
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